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Increases In Lat. Am. And Caribbean’s Forest Wood
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 9:13 am | United Nations
Latin America and the Caribbean will obtain more than 60 per cent of its sustainable wood supply from planted forests by the year 2020, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) has said, but high deforestation rates in the region’s natural ... More >>
UN Special Rep. To Timor-Leste Calls For Calm
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 9:12 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative in Timor-Leste today called for calm and for the observance of the rule of law to allow justice to take its course in dealing with the outbreak of violence in April that forced ... More >>
UNICEF Shocked At Case Of Child Rape In Zimbabwe
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 9:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has “condemned in the strongest possible terms” news of more horrific sexual child abuse cases in Zimbabwe while urging new measures to protect the country’s youngsters and provide more general education ... More >>
Eritrea-Ethiopia: At Meeting Of Sides
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 9:11 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy has pledged the world body’s continued efforts to fulfil its mandate in Ethiopia and Eritrea ere UN blue helmets are monitoring a ceasefire along the disputed border between the two Horn of Africa countries. More >>
Nepal Mission Head Expresses Optimism on Peace
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 3:46 pm | United Nations
The leader of a high-level United Nations delegation visiting Nepal to explore possible UN assistance to that country’s peace process today said he was hopeful that the Nepalese Government and the nation’s Communist party could reach an agreement on ... More >>
Annan Discusses Middle East Crisis
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 3:23 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met today with the five permanent members of the Security Council in informal talks focused on the crisis in the Middle East and how best to stop the bloodshed in a conflict that has killed hundreds of people ... More >>
Clearances, Devastation Hinder Urgent Mid East Aid
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 2:04 pm | United Nations
Demolished roads and bridges, fuel shortages and an inability to get security guarantees are all hindering the United Nations emergency effort to get urgent humanitarian aid to those most in need in the Middle East, a UN spokesman said today, as the world ... More >>
Haiti Has Foundations for Recovery And Renewal
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 2:02 pm | United Nations
Haiti stands ready for peaceful development after the successful staging of elections earlier this year and the subsequent formation of a broad-based government with ambitious but balanced policy goals, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report ... More >>
Annan Official Visit To Haiti & The Dominican Rep.
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:51 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan travels tomorrow to Haiti and the Dominican Republic for an official visit during which he will hold talks with the political leadership of the Caribbean neighbours and senior officials and commanders from the UN Stabilization ... More >>
UN Envoy To Somalia Says Dialogue Is Essential
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
Stressing the importance of continued dialogue between Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts, the senior United Nations envoy to the war-torn country said today that once a peace deal has been negotiated there ... More >>
Almost 300 Liberian Refugees Arrive Home
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
A group of nearly 300 Liberian refugees has arrived home this week from Ghana aboard a chartered passenger-cargo vessel, according to the United Nations refugee agency, which is supporting a massive voluntary repatriation to Liberia now that it is consolidating ... More >>
Poor State Breastfed Babies Have 3x Greater Chance
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:46 am | United Nations
In a developing country, a child who is breastfed is almost three times more likely to survive infancy than a child who is not, the United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) said today at the start of a weeklong commemoration of the most natural ... More >>
Syrian Aid Groups Seek Un Refugee Agency’s Help
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:46 am | United Nations
Syrian aid groups and private associations are urgently seeking assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) in providing relief for thousands of displaced Lebanese in the Syrian capital, Damascus. More >>
Sudan: Attacks On Rebels In North Darfur Must Stop
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:44 am | United Nations
Senior United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys to Sudan today jointly condemned a recent militia-backed attack by Government forces against a rebel group in the northern part of the country’s strife-torn Darfur region and called for an immediate ... More >>
Lebanese Minister Urges Steps to End Violence
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 11:53 am | United Nations
Addressing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, Lebanon’s acting Foreign Minister urged an immediate series of steps aimed at quelling the violence there, while Israel’s representative said his country was acting in self-defence ... More >>
SG Would Have Preferred Joint Probe on Post Attack
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 11:05 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the Security Council that Israel will carry out its own investigation into the events that led to the deaths of four United Nations observers in southern Lebanon last week, but he would have preferred a joint UN-Israeli ... More >>
Council Extends Arms Embargo in DR of Congo
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 11:00 am | United Nations
The Security Council voted unanimously today to extend by another year its arms embargo against militia groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), condemning the continuing illicit flow of weapons into and around the vast African country. More >>
Force in Lebanon Extended as Council Mulls Action
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 10:59 am | United Nations
The Security Council today extended for one month the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) while proposals for a new international presence in the violence-wracked region are considered. More >>
UNEP Backs Response To Lebanon Oil Slick Emergency
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 10:31 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has expressed grave concern over the environmental situation unfolding in the waters off of Lebanon, where an oil slick, caused by Israeli bombardment, is now reported to be affecting vast stretches ... More >>
Generally Peaceful Voting In DR Congo’s Elections
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 10:30 am | United Nations
As the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) went to the polls this weekend for the firsts time in more than four decades, voting was largely peaceful, according to the United Nations mission in the country ( MONUC ), which supported ... More >>
